Margaret Carew has worked in the Northern Territory as a community linguist for 20 years. She undertook language research with the Gun-nartpa language group in north-central Arnhem Land in the 1990s and continues to work with a Gun-nartpa language team on language documentation and publishing projects. She has also worked on projects with language teams at Ti Tree, Utopia, Wilora, Artarre, Willowra, Yuendumu, Yuelamu and at Tennant Creek.
She has extensive experience in adult education with Indigenous adults, having taught in both Higher Education and VET programs in the area of linguistics and Indigenous language documentation. She has also worked collaboratively with linguistic colleagues and other organisations on a range of projects.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Maningrida Action ProjectDuration: 2017 - current
This project is investigating sign language with teams in Maningrida, Arnhem Land Australia. It is a partnership with linguists Dr Jennifer Green at the Research Unit for Indigenous Language at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Murray Garde from the ANU. See: call.batchelor.edu.au/project/maningrida-action-projectAn-nguliny Rarrk: Stories from Mick Marrawa EnglandDuration: 2017
This project is a partnership between Maningrida Arts and Culture and the NT Language Support program through CALL at Batchelor Institute. See: call.batchelor.edu.au/project/an-nguliny-rarrkGun-nartpa StoriesDuration: 2010 – 2014
Principal Investigators: Margaret Carew (Project linguist), Crusoe Batara England, Patrick Muchana Litchfield and Raymond Walanggay England
This project is funded by the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages Support Program, the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Project, and Batchelor Institute’s Internal Research Grant Program. Also supported by the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures and the NT Library Community Stories project. The project team have digitised, documented and archived recordings from the 1990s, and have produced a book entitled Gun-ngaypa Rrawa ‘My Country’, published in 2014 by Batchelor Press. See: call.batchelor.edu.au/project/gun-ngaypa-rrawa-my-countryIltyem-iltyem: Central Australian Sign Languages ProjectDuration: 2011-current
Principal Investigators: Margaret Carew (Project manager and associate linguist),
This project is funded by the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages Support Program and is a partnership between Batchelor Institute, community language teams in Central Australia and linguist Dr Jennifer Green (Research Unit for Indigenous Language, University of Melbourne). The project has published an online Central Australian sign language resource – see: iltyemiltyem.com/sign/Jardiwanpa YawulyuDuration: 2012-13 – current
Principal Investigators: Margaret Carew (Project manager), Coral Napangardi Gallagher, Peggy Nampijinpa Brown, Georgia Curran and Barbara Napanangka Martin
This project is funded by the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages Support Program and is a partnership between Batchelor Institute, a team of Yawulyu performers and knowledge holders at Yuendumu and anthropologist Georgia Curran (University of Sydney). A book of the songs with photographs and interpretations will be published in 2014 by Batchelor Press.
For more projects see: call.batchelor.edu.au/project